Relating to, resembling, or composed of flesh; having a fleshy or meaty quality or appearance; used in zoology and botany to describe fleshy tissues or structures.
From Latin 'carneus' (relating to flesh, from 'caro' meaning flesh) + '-ous' (suffix forming adjectives). This is a technical term in biology inherited directly from Latin scientific vocabulary.
When botanists describe a carneous fruit, they're using a 2,000-year-old word from Latin that literally means 'made of meat,' because fleshy fruits reminded Romans of animal flesh!
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